Translated by David Hadbawnik.
Published 2023. Paperback, 420pp, 9 x 6ins, £19.95 / $32.50
ISBN 9781848618992 [ Download a sample PDF from this book here. ]

This is a one-volume edition, minus the many illustrations, of the books originally published by Shearsman in 2015 and 2021. With a view to making available a more affordable edition, we now present the entirety of the Aeneid in David Hadbawnik's extraordinary version, between one set of covers.

“Few narrative poems have possessed the Western imagination like Virgil’s twelve-book epic written during Augustus’s triumphant consolidation of the Roman Empire. […] This new volume goes a long way toward moving the narrative into the hands of contemporary readers, drawing out a playful understanding of the ancient story while exhibiting modern preferences for poetic interaction and inquiry into the history and terms of poetic form and translation. Hadbawnik shows the fun to be had in language’s etymological resonance, and he delights in scenes of dramatic fulfillment and failure. His translation distills the essence of the narrative by directing a reader’s perception of the tale.

[…] Readers enter it anew as a work of contemporary art and not as a fuzzy excavation or dour education in classical writing. It is instead a vivid opportunity to confront our own pleasure for words and images violently imagined in the ancient corpus.

—from Dale Martin Smith’s essay, ‘The Warrior Agōn ’.

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